torture

Activists turn Chicago police torture site at Homan Square into Freedom Square

July 27, 2016 By Earchiel Johnson And Michelle Zacarias

The occupation is one of several national protests currently being led by African-American-led organizations.

Landmark settlement ends long-term solitary confinement in Calif. prisons

September 3, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

Some 2,858 inmates were reportedly held in solitary; some for 10, 20 or even 30 years, spending all but an hour or so of their day isolated in tiny cement-lined cells.

Chicago to pay reparations to police torture victims

May 5, 2015 By Don Babwin

Victims of police torture would share $5.5 million, receive an apology and see their story taught in school under a reparations package.

The CIA backstory needs to be remembered

December 12, 2014 By Emile Schepers

As the debate on the Feinstein Committee's torture report continues, we need to remember the "backstory."

UN officials demand prosecutions for U.S. torture

December 11, 2014 By John Heilprin

All senior U.S. officials and CIA agents who authorized or carried out torture like waterboarding must be prosecuted, top U.N. officials said Wednesday.